Memorable Scenes
It has been said of the play “Hamlet” that its best scene is the one in which Horatio first sees the ghost, or the one in which he tells Hamlet of it, or the one…
From East to West
You are what your deep, driving desire is.As your deep, driving desire is, so is your will;As your will is, so is your deed;As your deed is, so is your destiny. —Upanishads, translated by Eknath Easwaran…
To Whom Are We Paying Attention?
A living example often can have a stronger effect than thousands of theoretical teachings and rules.–Chan Khong, Learning True Love The deepest spring of action in us is the sight of action in another.–William James,…
He Contains Multitudes
[Hamlet] inherits the virtues of a score of his predecessors–and some of their weaknesses. Yet he is no mere recapitulation of them. In him, rather, they recombine to make a man as individual as he…
A Poem
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore was a prolific American Muslim poet.
Share the Wealth with Cami Kasmerchak: The good grief project
Grief can be a lonely experience, but it doesn’t have to be. Sometimes we don’t talk about grief because it makes us uncomfortable or we don’t know what to say. The good grief project was…
Scholars
1. “What will a pundit’s scholarship profit him if he does not think of God and has no discrimination and renunciation? Of what use is erudition if the mind dwells on ‘woman and gold’?”–Sri Ramakrishna,…
Shantideva on Bodhisattvadom 101
Those who will falsely accuse me, and others who will do me harm, and others still who will degrade me, may they all share in Awakening. I am the protector of the unprotected and the…
Be In Love with This Life: A Class with Cami Kasmerchak and Mark Chmiel
One September evening, a group of Weston students walked past a disfigured man in a wheel-chair begging outside the school. No one said hello or even acknowledged him, which prompted Gene later to ask aloud…
The Patron Saint of All Outsiders
This French version of Kafka, this cross between Pascal and Orwell remains unclassifiable. She is intellectually stateless, prophet without any country in which she can be sure of honor. A Catholic Jewess who criticized impeccably…